The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

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[Recovering_Democrat]

1. America Online (1989-2006)
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
6. Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
8. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
9. Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
10. dBASE IV (1988)
11. Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
12. PointCast (1996)
13. IBM PCjr. (1984)
14. Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)
15. Iomega Zip Drive (1998)
16. Comet Cursor (1997)
17. Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)
18. IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)
19. OQO Model 1 (2004)
20. CueCat (2000)
21. Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)
22. Apple Pippin @World (1996)
23. Free PCs (1999)
24. DigiScents iSmell (2001)
25. Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004)

[Recovering_Democrat]

AOL. LOL.

[Recovering_Democrat]

The link at the TOP of the page works...the individual links do NOT. sorry. rd.

[DB]

Later read...

[Screamname]

What about 8-track?

[TexasTransplant]

dBASEIV is still better than MS Access

(Then again I still use DOS to find stuff)

TT

[Dumpster Baby]

LOL I have 4 items on that list, and if I had had more buck$ to spend over the years I probably would have had twice that number.

[lesser_satan]

I actually thought they were superior to cassetes in some ways.

[martin_fierro]

Welcome to last May.

[qam1]

PDF files should be #1

No matter how fast your connection they still take forever to load and there's always a 50-50 chance they will crash your system.

Even opening a saved one on your computer takes forever as Adobe has to open each individual *.dll & *.ini file one by one.

They are mind bending slow to navigate also.

[atomicpossum]

Timex-Sinclair ZX-81?

[Sisku Hanne]

I think I have CueCat in a drawer somewhere. No, I was not stupid enough to use it!

[frankiep]

AOL does suck. But what is the problem with RealPlayer? I use it and am pretty satisfied with it.

[wagglebee]

Yep, PDF should definitely be at #1.

[Revolting cat!]

[lormand]

Netscape made some worse browsers than Internet Explorer 6.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I don't dispute that these products are terrible, but the earliest one is 1989? I don't believe that. There has to be terrible tech products from the '60s and '70s that are worthy for the list.

[FreedomCalls]

Working links:

1. America Online (1989-2006)
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
6. Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
8. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
9. Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
10. dBASE IV (1988)
11. Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
12. PointCast (1996)
13. IBM PCjr. (1984)
14. Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)
15. Iomega Zip Drive (1998)
16. Comet Cursor (1997)
17. Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)
18. IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)
19. OQO Model 1 (2004)
20. CueCat (2000)
21. Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)
22. Apple Pippin @World (1996)
23. Free PCs (1999)
24. DigiScents iSmell (2001)
25. Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004)

[WayneM]

They forgot about the Circuit City/Divx debacle.

[Defiant]

Real Player really screws up your computer, all kinds of processes running and calling the internet all the time. Not as bad as MusicMatch, though.

AOL served a purpose until about 2000, though, as diaper training for people getting on the internet. Now, I have no idea why anyone would keep an account there.

[No.6]

I liked Pointcast ... but unfortunately the minute it became popular, people started using it at work and blew up their company's bandwidth, and that was all she wrote.